Our paper reporting the serendipitous discovery of one of the most stabilized phosphonium ylides is out now in Chem Eur J! This ylide is also a potential supramolecular building block. Congrats Minji, Stella, Andrew, and Victor!

Our article on an angled aromatic diimide and its derivatization into heteroacenes was accepted by the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Great work by Stella, Kellie, and Stella!

Kellie Stellmach was selected for an American Chemical Society Division of Organic Chemistry Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)! This award will fund Kellie’s 2019 summer research into the preparation of novel azaacenes, in addition to providing access to professional development opportunities at an industrial campus. Congrats Kellie!

Dennis was selected by the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement for a 2019 Cottrell Scholar Award, which seeks to identify “leader[s] in integrating science teaching and research at a top U.S. research university or a primarily undergraduate institution.” This award will support research into some crazy cationic molecules. Congrats Dennis!